Virtual Machines

Introduction

There will be a variety of Virtual Machines contained within the Home Lab. A Brief description will be provided here with a more complete set of notes on each individual VM on the links.

Virtual Machines

A fairly high description of each of the VMs in use in the Home Lab.

Pfsense

The firewall and gateway to the whole of the Home Lab. The Virgin router will forward all incoming traffic from the Internet to the WAN port of the firewall at 192.168.0.125. The Firewall has five other internal interfaces to link to the Home Lab environment. 192.168.99.10/24 is the MGT VLAN it should be severely restricted to maintain security it is the only VLAN to be able to access the WebGUI of Pfsense. The Production VLAN is where all of the file and web servers are, the gateway address is 192.168.100.1/24. The Infra VLAN gateway 192.168.110.10/24 is where any supporting services will be located, at present there is only a Nameserver. I have reserved a VLAN called VPNnet with a gateway address of 192.168.130.1/24 for a VPN server to provide a VPN tunnel from remote terminals, there will not be many concurrent connections so a /24 network will be more than sufficient. The last VLAN has a Pfsense interface of 192.168.111.1/24 for any Desktop VM terminals that I will use while i am out, I have called this terminals. Further details of the Pfsense firewall can be found here.

Management kiosk

A desktop Linux used to configure other VMs including Pfsense. As it is so sensitive i have kept it isolated on the MGT VLAN. There I have setup passwordless ssh to various other VMs as well. The host is called Lemon and has an IP Address of 192.168.99.20/24.

Virtual Machines

Contents

Introduction